About this world
TOI-2096 c is a super-Earth orbiting TOI-2096, a cool red dwarf (type M4) 158 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.9 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 6.39 days at 0.04 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 349 K (76 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.
It was discovered in 2023 by transit with Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. TOI-2096 has 2 known planets; the others are TOI-2096 b.